Team Leader: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is Visiting Fellow at the LSE and Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). He has published several papers and articles for ECIPE since 2010 on free trade negotiations, EU-Asia relations and especially, EU-Japan relations, World Trade Organization, services trade, automotive sector, privacy and the digital economy. Prior to joining ECIPE, he was the Senior Advisor on WTO issues to the EU Presidency of Sweden, serving in Geneva as EU chairperson on trade in services, intellectual property, customs-technical issues and their related UN/WTO-bodies. He represented the EU in World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and served also on the executive committee of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). He also worked in the private sector advising Fortune 500 companies and served on the European board of governors of a top 3 US PR/advertising group. Lee-Makiyama appears regularly in European, US and Chinese media, and was named one of the 20 most influential people for open internet by the readers of the Guardian UK in 2012.Recent publications include an article on Cross-border Data Flows in the Post-Bali Agenda, The Economic Importance of Getting Data Protection Right, Digital Trade in the U.S. and Global Economies and Future-Proofing World Trade in Technology: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA). Read more

Stephen Woolcock

Stephen Woolcock has more than 30 years of experience in policy-related trade research. This has been gained in policy research institutions, in the private sector and in universities. Prior to joining the London School of Economics he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London; Paul Henri Spaak Fellow at the Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, and Deputy Director for International Relations (with responsibility for international trade policy) at the Confederation of British Industry.Since 1996 he has been at the LSE where he teaches the political economy of international trade, economic diplomacy and international political economy. Shortly after joining the LSE he established the International Trade Policy Unit at the LSE, a research unit which works to bridge the divide between academic research on trade and policy practice and to promote an objective, informed public debate on trade and trade related topics.Dr Woolcock has worked on a wide range of trade and trade related topics. The main focus of his work has been on the link between trade and regulatory policies, which includes, for example, services, the Singapore issues and a range of other areas where trade policy impinges of domestic regulatory policy. In recent years his research interests have focused on European Union trade policy (substance and process), preferential trade and investment agreements and how they relate to the WTO as well as negotiating issues in trade. Read more

Patrick Messerlin

Patrick Messerlin is Chairman of ECIPE’s Steering Committee/Advisory Board, Professor emeritus of economics at Sciences Po Paris, and Director of Groupe d'Economie Mondiale (GEM) at Sciences Po since its creation in 1997. GEM is an independent research unit seeking to improve the performance of French and European public policies in a global world. He has more than 30 years of expertise in the field of trade policy, international trade negotiations, regulatory impact assessment, and research into specific sectors such as public procurement, services, and machinery. He also has extensive experience working on Asia and more specifically, Japan.

Throughout the years he has been a consultant to many international organizations, governments and firms. Most recently, in the period 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Trade Council, which he chaired in 2010-2011. In 2008-2011, he co-chaired with Ernest Zedillo, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, the joint World Bank & UK Department for International Development Task Force on Global Finance and Trade Architecture. In 2003-2005, he also co-chaired with Ernesto Zedillo the Task Force on “Trade for Development” for the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Prior to this, in 2001-2002, Patrick was a special advisor to Mike Moore, the WTO Director General. He also served as a member of the Preparatory Conference to the G7-G8 Summits (a group of independent persons gathered by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Tokyo Foundation). Before the WTO, Patrick Messerlin was a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the World Bank. In 1990, he joined Sciences Po as a Professor of economics. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Houston (Texas, USA), Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada), Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany) and Keio University (Tokyo, Japan). He has written many books and articles on his areas of expertise. Read more

Kenneth Heydon

Kenneth Heydon is an economic consultant, a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and a faculty member of the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA) in Tanzania. Prior to this he was Deputy Director for Trade at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development where he was responsible for analysis of issues facing the multilateral trading system. Fields of policy analysis for which he was responsible included: the links between trade and labour standards (leading to the publication in 2000 of International Trade and Core Labour Standards; trade and structural adjustment; liberalisation of trade in services; linkages between trade and the environment and between trade and competition policy; the trade dimension of regulatory reform; and the impact of preferential trade agreements on social and economic conditions and on the multilateral trading system. Ken Heydon has also worked on previous occasions at the OECD, in both the Trade Directorate and the Development Cooperation Directorate – in both cases working on the development dimensions of trade policy.Before his last appointment at the OECD, Ken Heydon was Deputy Director-General of the Office of National Assessments in Canberra, providing advice to the Prime Minister on international economic, foreign policy and strategic developments. He has extensive experience within the Australian bureaucracy having held economic policy and trade advisory positions in the Treasury, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Prime Minister’s Department. He has been closely involved in various GATT Rounds and in the conduct of Australia’s bilateral and regional trade and economic relations. Earlier in his career he spent two years as Principal Private Secretary to former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. As a consultant, Ken Heydon has undertaken work assessing the economic and social impact of preferential trade agreements, trade policy responses to the global financial crisis, the linkage between trade and growth, and the impact of globalisation on employment and social policies.Ken Heydon’s latest publications include The Rise of Bilateralism: Comparing American, European and Asian Approaches to Preferential Trade Agreements, United Nations University Press (2009) and The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy, Ashgate Publishing (2012), both co-authored with Stephen Woolcock. Ken Heydon has a BSc.Econ. from the London School of Economics and an M.Econ from the Australian National University.

Stefania Lovo

Stefania Lovo is a research officer at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining the Institute, Stefania worked as Econometrician at the Legatum Institute, a London-based think tank. She also works as consultant for the World Bank and the European Commission and collaborated with the Italian Development Cooperation in the West Bank.

​Her current research focuses mainly on environment-related issues in developing countries, and she is currently involved in a sustainability impact assessment for the EU-Japan FTA for DG Trade as an environmental expert. She has conducted research on the relationship between tenure insecurity and conservation investment, on deforestation and on the impact of environmental policies on trade, energy efficiency, competitiveness and firms’ location. Stefania holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Economics and Finance from the University of Verona.

Duncan Brack

Duncan Brack is an independent environmental policy analyst, an associate fellow of Chatham House and an associate of Forest Trends. From 2010 to 2012 he was special adviser at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change; before that he worked for Chatham House, and from 1998 to 2003 was head of its Sustainable Development Programme. His areas of expertise include international forestry policy, forest governance and the timber trade, climate policy, low-carbon investment, bioenergy, public procurement, the interaction between environmental regulation and trade rules, ozone depletion and the Montreal Protocol, and international environmental crime, particularly illegal logging and the trade in illegal timber.

His recent work at Chatham House includes Promoting Legal and Sustainable Timber: Using Public Procurement Policy (Sep 2014), A Global Response to HFCs through Fair and Effective Ozone and Climate Policies (Jul 2014) and Ending Global Deforestation: Policy Options for Consumer Countries (Sep 2013). Read more

Philipp Lamprecht

Philipp Lamprecht worked on a number of consultancy projects in the field of trade for the International Trade Policy Unit of the LSE since 2010. He also provided research assistance for the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. He has gained work experience at the European Commission's DG Trade in 2011, working with trade negotiators on EU-Japan economic and trade relations. He produced a complete first draft of the impact assessment report on the future of EU-Japan trade and economic relations. He was responsible for drafting, consulting stakeholders and incorporating feedback from relevant staff from other units and other Directorates-General. In addition, he participated in a course on the methodology of drafting impact assessment reports aimed at European Commission staff. He holds a double master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and from the University of St. Gallen. He also studied Japanese Studies at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the LSE International Relations department.The PhD thesis which he finished in 2014 lays a focus on Japanese trade policy, the Japanese economy, as well as Japan’s role in international and multilateral trade negotiations. His research interests include economic diplomacy, international trade, Doha Development Agenda, Japanese trade policy and Japanese politics.

Elitsa Garnizova

Elitsa Garnizova is an MPhil/PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Researcher and Project Officer at LSE Enterprise. She was involved in the qualitative research for the Assessment of the Technical Vocation Education and Training System of Myanmar, where her work focused on the link between economic development, trade and social issues. In addition to the work on Myanmar, she is a country study researcher for the European Parliament project on the Impact of the economic crisis on economic, social and territorial cohesion in Europe. She also assists the work on the preparation of the methodology for the ex-post evaluation of the European Social Fund 2007 – 2013 and the country review on skills mismatch policies in the EU. She has an MA in European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives from KU Leuven, Belgium and a BSc in International Economic and Management from Bocconi University, Italy. Prior to joining LSE, she worked with a London-based strategy consultancy, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the European Commission. She was a trainee at the Policy Coordination Unit at the Directorate-General for Trade of the EC where she was supported the communication with the European Parliament, Council committees and external stakeholders during trade policy negotiations. She is fluent in Bulgarian and English, has working knowledge of French and Italian and is currently studying Arabic (MSA).